The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-09-10
CURRENT TOPICS.

hATTLEsSAKE OIL Is quoted NJ VI 10 "
bottle.
THERE are over $4,000 Italians in New
York City.
KANSAS mines annually about 100000
tons of coal.
HENRY IvEs smoked cigarettes. So did
Ferdinand Ward.
THE cur builders are everywhere having
o busy time of 1t.
New ORLEANS has been abandoned as
recruiting station.
ONE brakeman to every two cars is the
Massachusetts law.
AT Macon, Ga, large railroad machine
shops are to be built.
ALL Bar Harbor turns out to sec De
Witt Talmage swim.
HAND-PAISTEp collins are the latest So
ciety freak in Boston.
JAY GOULD has bought gold-platcd
rattle for his grandson.
CONDUCTOR is the name of o new town in
Southwestern Kansas.
THIS seasons oyster crop promises to be
the best for many years.
The first State Fair ever held in Ohio
was at Cincinnati in 1850.
AsTArUE of Ethan Allen is spoken Of to
be placed at Ticonderoga.
In Chicago Miss Halter and Mr.. Rope
were married by Rev. Knott.
JUDGE HILToN wears weed on his hat
for the late Mrs. A. L. Stewart.
MISS CUMMINGS and Miss Goings run
photograph gallery at Buffalo, N. Y.
OLIVIA COBB, an Athens (Ga.) belle Of
twenty, has declined thirty proposals.
UNCLE SANS colored infantry regiments
90 fpl thot Ito y,ott tal
LATEST reports give the United States
776o4 persons engaged in agriculture.
LONG ISLAND is in the shape of fish. 1t
is 115 miles long and twelve miles wide.
GLASS jar of pears, canned" forty
years ago, is shown at Buchmanville, Pa
AN enormous oil-feld has been dscov.
cred in Venezuela, near Lake Maracaibo.
Thus far this year 200 persons have been
killed in railroad accidents and COO in
jured.
In France spouting artesian wells have
been successfully used to turn turbine
wheels.
GENERAL ALBERT PIKE is very fond of
birds, and has in his study dozens Of them
in cages.
A NEW YORK electric light company is
now furnishing lights at twenty-five cents
each per night.
ELEcTRIcITY under favorable circum-
stances has been found to travel 2SS,000
miles per second.
EDISON has sent his father, Samuel Edi-
son, of Fort Gratiot, Mich, on tour
around the world.
LoTTA l.. BuRLISGAME of Ann Arbor
has been admitted to practice law, by Illi-
nois Supreme Court.
COUPLE, who have been engaged for
thirty-tive years, We're married in Albany,
N. ", few days ago.
CnICAGois threatened with an anthracite
coal famine Dealers say they can get
neither cars nor boats.
LAST year about one-fifth of the cotton
seed was made into oil, giving 10000, 600
gallons, worth sl0,0OO,0O0.
THERE has been an increase of $40 00O, ,OO0
in the in supply OF gold in this country
during the past seventeen months.
CAPTAIN Ben RICHARDSON, of New York,
who owns George Washington's coach,
wears whiskers that sweep the ground.
TrLARE, Cal, is ovcrrun with huge black
spiders whose poisonous bite has put
scores of men and women into sick beds.
Roscoe CoNKLING earns $2OO.OOO year
and pays $50 a month for his lodgings. He
chews, not smokes, twcnty-fve-cent cigars.
Two men waded the Mississippi four
miles above Quincy one day recently, and
the deepest water they found was five
feet.
ALTHOUGH you have to pay cash when
you send u telegraphic message, yet the
whole telegraph business is done on
tick.
TIoGA County (Pa.) farmer committed
suicide because his wife wouldn't get up
ut five o'clock in the morning to get his
breakfast.
The school officials of Boston have posted
notices in all the school buildings of that
city forbidding the chewing of tobacco by
the pupils.
THE New York courts have decided that
organ grinders monkeys are ''insalubri-
ous" animals, and must not be allowed on
the streets.
AUGUST was q stormy month, for the
most part, on the Atlantic. Homeward
bound passengers from Europe had u
rough time.
A BANKRUPT sale of dry goods in Pitts
burgh brought out such crowd of women
that a baby carried by one Of them was
smothered to death in the Jam.
The village of Highland, N. Y, boasts
of 4 citizen who is blind and deaf but
who has such II powerful voice that he
initiates thunderstorm with realistic
effect.
MINISTERS are so scarce in Idaho that
they have to be imported in many cases
where people wish to get married. Trains
are stopped that they may be searched for
ministers.
JAY GOULD, Cyrus w. Field, Sidney
Dillon, Russell Sage and Alonxo b. Cor
nell often lunch together in the Wester-
Union building, New York, at the COM
pany's expense. They represent $780,
O00,OOO.
ROBERT j. PINTHARD, self-styled nephew
OF Wilbur +. Storey, and contestant Of his
will, is in New York working at his trade
as u printer. His suit is for a, 900, 900, and
he claims to have refused $3.50 900 in com.
promise.
THEY have no proper conception of news.
paper enterprise in France. They have
arrested and charged with ''trcasonn two
clerks who simply gave the Figaro hint
OF the mobilization scheme.
FOOLISH woman at Niagara Falls in
sisted, in spite of the objections of attend.
ants, on taking her three-month-o old child
through the Cave of the Winds. When she
came out the child was dead, having been
suffocated by the spray.
ApvIcEs from Philadelphia and Pitts.
n.